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ADVICE to SAILORS.
YOUNG Seamen who crosses the deep,
and thinks to get riches thereby,
Keep your senses from falling asleep,
both Cupid and Venus defy;
No, nor let lewd women prevail,
nor black gowns upon you attend;
For when marry'd, your courage will fail,
and your galloping's all at an end.
And if your wife proves with child,
the neighbours will make this reply,
Pray, whether a girl or a boy,
then you must forget to be wild;
But lay up more money in store,
the midwife and gossips to tend;
When marry'd, your courage grows cold,
and your galloping's all at an end.
And when you have christen'd your son,
and run upon tick for the charge,
The neighbours and gossips being gone,
that made your expences so large ;
You must say nothing at all about this,
but be pleas'd with what God does send,
And say there is nothing amiss,
but my galloping's all at an end.
But if I had but time to write down,
the tricks that belong to a wife,
Not all the fine paper in town
would hold the contentions and strife:
